When does a prophecy become a prophecy?

[naomi24]

Last night I dreamt that Britain was being invaded by Germany. Hundreds of planes, dropping military tanks, filled the darkened, foreboding, sky. In the unlikely event that this should ever occur, don't forget you heard it here first. ;o)

[beso]

Actually, Nostradamus was right. There really were nine aboard the shuttle. There were two stowaways but that has been kept secret in a big conspiracy.

The o-rings in the solid booster were blamed to protect the guilty but the real reason for the failure was the extra weight of the stowaways.

[jomifl]

Naomi..are you sure that parachuting isn't preying on your mind? ;-)

[naomi24]

^^ Ha ha! It's a thought. Geronimo!!!!

[pdust]

Have you got any idea when this will happen Naomi? Just that if I rush off and eat all the christmas chocolate now and it doesnt happen til after new year I will be a very growled at nana!!!

[jomifl]

Birdie...and there was me thinking that 'thiokol' was the name of the company that made the polysulphide rubber seals. The 'thio' part of the name referring to the substition of another chemical element in a molecule with sulphur to alter it's properties(which is what they do).

[Zabadak]

H'm. I think there's a general confusion here between dream and vision, prophecy and prediction, and speculation and ex post facto rationalisation. Nostradamus got away with it because his quatrains allowed almost any interpretation. As soon as anyone attempts to predict the future on the basis of his spooky stuff, the only safe expectation is that the future will be different. Same applies when Biblical prophecies, like the Revelation, are taken to be coded predictions.

[naomi24]

pdust, none at all. :o)

zabadak, dreams, visions, call them what you will, can carry all sorts of interpretations - to those who want to see them as more than what they are.

[mibn2cweus]

“Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close.” - http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan

[Elderman]

The situation is similar with respect to your future and Bible prophecy. In fact, the future can be seen through Bible prophecy. And although we humans cannot change prophetic events involving the earth, we can individually alter our plans, thereby ensuring an improved future amid those events.

[naomi24]

Elderman, //In fact, the future can be seen through Bible prophecy.//

Wrong. That's not a fact. Facts require proof - and you have none.

[Elderman]

Naomi.........How true the words of Jesus: “Blind guides is what they are.” “If, then “a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matt. 15:14)

[naomi24]

Elderman, how true indeed - and you are a perfect of example of what happens to a blind man when he follows another blind man.